Washington Room

This gallery is for cards from Washington, DC's long baseball tradition. There were two major league teams that called the District of Columbia home before the Senators (also, at times, called the Nationals) joined the American League as a charter member in 1901. That franchise lasted for sixty years in the nation's capital, eventually relocating to Minneapolis in 1961 as the Twins. Washington then received an expansion franchise which remained for ten seasons, becoming the Texas Rangers for 1972.

The city was left without a major league team for 32 more years, until the Montreal Expos relocated to become the Washington Nationals for the 2005 season. Over the past 15 years, during their climb up the standings and their eventual World Series championship in 2019, the Nationals haven't forgotten their time as a franchise in Montreal, sometimes wearing vintage-style Expos uniforms. Their current manager, Dave Martinez, spent time as an Expo in the early 1990s, so it's fitting that he shows up in this gallery wearing the red, white, and blue of that club, along with Mark Langston.

This gallery room is as much personal history as art and design themselves, so look for new additions here as I find more from Washington's baseball history.